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Thursday, May 4, 2017

Artist's Consception Venus Mapper, Magellan Spacecraft

Artist's conception shows proposed spacecraft for the Venus Mapper (VM), which would use imaging radar to see through Venus' cloud cover to map 90 percent of the planet's surface. Partially assembled from spare parts of past and future JPL spacecraft missions like Viking, Voyager and Galileo, the VM, if authorized for a new start in 1984, would be ready for launch from NASA's Space Shuttle in 1988. It would arrive at Venus six months later.

Official NASA Photograph

This postcard is unused.

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The Magellan spacecraft, also referred to as the Venus Radar Mapper, was a 1,035-kilogram (2,282 lb) robotic space probe launched by NASA on May 4, 1989, to map the surface of Venus by using synthetic aperture radar and to measure the planetary gravitational field.

Facts about my collection...

I have been collecting stamped, mailed postcards since 1973. I have cards made from plastic, fabric, wood, metal, leather, and paper. Also, cards announcing the wrong person as president of the U.S., cards that are actual puzzles, cards that are playable records, light switch covers and a card mailed from the initial flight of the Hindenburg, 3D cards, hold to light cards, 1912 Titanic postcard and just about everything you can think of! So far I have over 12,000postcards scanned with many more still to go.

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One of the TOP TEN postcard blogs!

This blog has been named one of the top ten postcard blogs by ephemera.typepad.com.
I would like to say thank you, and I'm glad so many people now get to enjoy my postcard collection. The computer is truly a wonderful thing!